There is no sea!

Written: 1 july 2021
Travel time: 12 — 25 june 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
I was moved to take a tour to this hotel because of the good reviews and the high rating of the hotel. I deliberately gave a low rating, because when choosing a hotel they usually read the best reviews and the worst, at least I do. This should pay attention to my review.
So - the hotel is good, a solid triple turning into 4 (and not 4 turning into 5 : -)) well, it doesn’t pull on 4, the flies at the reception, but the triple is good. The pool is shallow - a maximum of 1.5 in one place. The water park for children is small and only open until lunch. The canteen is standard, the food too, but there was also a positive point - there were melons, watermelons, peaches, bananas and oranges, that is, in this regard, everything is not bad, but there was nothing like shrimp or crabs at all, although there was fish. There is a la carte restaurant, but for a surcharge. There are no complaints about the staff either, everything is fine. The hotel itself is green, but the rooms are in need of cosmetic repairs, although we may have come across one. Refrigerator was warming, but not cooling : -)
Now about the main thing - the sea in this hotel is practically inaccessible. That is, there is a beach on the seashore, but a strip of water from the coast 10 meters wide and a meter deep is available. And in this strip you can plunge, and that's almost all. After 10 meters, a coral begins on which you can’t walk, and there’s nothing to do there. There is a pier from which, in principle, you can go down to the real sea, but in 11 days it was open 4 times in the afternoon. Then it is open, then you can really swim in the real sea along the very coral on which you can’t walk. The coral is not bad, but it was almost impossible to swim along it.

The problem is that the wind rose in the area of ​ ​ the hotel is such that almost all the time the surf is high. Because of the high surf, the sea is inaccessible. Maybe this is some kind of seasonal anomaly, but in other neighboring hotels there was no surf at the same time at all. We were in Port Khalib and sailed on the tour boat Nefertari to watch sea turtles and dugong. And yes, we saw as many as 5 turtles and the last of the dugongs. So we sailed on it along the coast along different hotels, and didn’t notice any surf point-blank.
So the sea is there, but you can't use it.
I especially want to note the service on the beach - I have never seen a better service anywhere. They will rearrange the sunbeds for you, and bring the mattresses, and the towels will run and change and lay on the sunbed. A trifle but nice.
And the last thing - do not exchange money for any of the beach agitators, especially before leaving.
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